We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle...

The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online.

What does this mean for my FriendFeed account?

FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team. As usual, we will communicate openly about our plans as they develop — keep an eye on the FriendFeed News group for updates.

What about the FriendFeed API?

The FriendFeed API will also continue to operate normally. As above, we will let you know as we settle on our plan to more fully integrate with Facebook.

So cool. Congrats! This is just what Facebook needed - and I'm guessing FriendFeed too at some level. With ample funding there's no telling what you guys will come up with. Can't wait to see what's next!

Interesting move. FriendFeed certainly deserves the mainstream adoption that Facebook will make possible. I'm very disappointed personally though as I find using Facebook a horrible experience, and I can only imagine that FriendFeed's ultimate destiny is to become buried deep within Facebook and be unappreciated by the masses that use that platform.

I'm never in favor of consolidating, diversity and choice is what makes the internet so amazing. What will ultimately happen is that Friendfeed will be sucked into Facebook and FF will ultimately disappear, a real kick in the teeth to all the users who supported it.

Congrats guys.There is an possibility of great synergy.Both are wonderful products in there own right and both are best in the breed. An amazing deal can be accomplished if the integration happens in open and precise manner.The only problem area i see is that Friendfeed is an inherently open system whereas Facebook is all about walled garden.I just hope friendfeed somehow doesn't turn into a walled garden.

Congrats - but don't let the same thing happen to you as to the team behind http://jaiku.com - bought by Google who then did nothing to develop the service but let it go down the drain - just to get the brainy team behind jaiku.com.

Facebook sucks. I'm extremely sure that this will make FriendFeed suck too because in the long run FB will suck off ("integrate" - yeah right, like someone'll buy that BS) FriendFeed and it won't exist anymore.

I'm glad that there will be a large increase in the use of FriendFeed, and the increased support/funding the FF team needs. Just PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do not let Friendfeed simply merge the two. I like them separate!

Business is business and in that sense, congratulations. Probably I would have done the same being in your shoes. Whether we are gonna like it or not is a different thing. I understand Facebook delivers quite an amusing service and covers a lot of stuff that help you part with your friends and "friends", but I certainly hate the guts out of it. I mean, you were like Firefox to IE, or Wordpress to Blogger. I still can't believe my eyes. All of a sudden I am losing all of my interest. Sorry about that. Please try to make it look like there's no interference in your nice work.

Congrats FF team! Your product is now validated, and the added bonus is that FB no longer has to steal your ideas and innovations. :-)

Unlike many here I'm not unhappy with this. Facebook is working more toward opening up, and FriendFeed already is, so the push in the *right* direction can continue. In other words, FB haters, FF *should* make FB better.

Bret and team, my best wishes to you. Celebrate!!! Oh, and never stop innovating - y'all are extremely good at it! :-)

It's your company, you can do with it what you want. Just don't give us that "good news" stuff, when you know it's just good news for YOU. Again, I say "go for it"; it's your company and you have to make the bucks. Just don't expect us to join in on the celebration. We all know this means drastic changes to the service at some point.

Happy for you from a personal perspective because I've watched you struggle to make FF the most responsive, involved and user driven site on the web and I really feel you deserve your payday. But FB?? Guys, that's like being assimilated by the Borg! Very sad day.

First thing I did after hearing this was deleting my FF account.I try very hard to stay away from FB and anything that has to do with it.Good luck to you FF guys, it was probably the best thing to do for you.

I think it's fair to say that the FriendFeed users where the last people considered when the decision was taken. Sadly.. does a social networking site that put its owners first and its users last have any future ?

From a service point of view I hope you are going to keep it alive because you guys made it where facebook utterly failled ... You provided complex integration and delivered it beautifully simply to the user putting the complexity behind the interface ... not in the face of the user for him to manage it and eventually despair ...

I hope Facebook will adopt your philosophy and design not the other way round ...

If facebook cannot learn from you I hope they will allow you to keep this service alive !

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This is sad. I left facebook for Friendfeed - even deactivating account process in Facebook is irritating (with many more things I don't like) and now I am pushed to the wall with tis news - I am really afraid that Friendfeed will evolve into facebook clone with all this not-so-user-friendly interface and completely NOT friendly support. Too bad you have lost you independence;/

Congrats. How can CitySocialising use FriendFeed cos we really want to get our members and offline community on this thing. Plus we're all about meeting new friends too (real world ones) so it would be a perfect collabo

I've yet to figure out how to use FriendFeed. It has escaped me even from the beta. Just don't cross-pollinate these two services. I don't see how they can benefit each other. That's likely because I don't "get" FriendFeed.

Congratulations, I hope this will be a really positive move for both FF & FB and am glad to hear that you guys are taking your time to work out the integration issues rather than simply jumping in and making any changes too fast.

This is good new if its gonaa bring new services to FF. I am worried about its API, I hope FF remains independent service and FB adds features of it on it. I am worried about API, Looking for another lifestreaming service if it decides to close this. I hope they don't ask me to recreate app in a month.